The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession (Registro nro. 117957)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DD |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1924 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Second edition, revised and enlarged. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-15 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | MWS, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession by Adolphus William Ward is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It follows the life and political significance of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, emphasizing her pivotal place in securing the Protestant (Hanoverian) path to the British throne amid the religious and dynastic struggles of early modern Europe. The work situates her within the Palatine and Brunswick-Lüneburg houses and draws on rich correspondence and archival sources to blend political narrative with an intellectual portrait.<br/><br/>The opening of the book explains that the author will foreground Sophia’s role in the British Succession while setting necessary context: the decline of the Palatine fortunes, the rise of the Hanoverian line, and the broader Protestant-Catholic conflicts. The preface details the sources—Sophia’s memoirs and voluminous letters, her exchanges with Leibniz, the Queen of Bohemia’s correspondence, diplomatic dispatches—and notes controversial Hanoverian episodes, including material on Sophia Dorothea and Königsmarck. The introductory chapter frames Sophia as “heiress of Great Britain,” highlighting her prudence and self-control and presenting the Succession as the realized form of the Protestant cause. The narrative then begins with Sophia’s birth to Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, recounts Elizabeth’s upbringing at Combe Abbey (including the Gunpowder Plot scare), her marriage into the Palatinate, the political gamble of accepting the Bohemian crown, the defeat at White Mountain, and the family’s exile and search for support in the Netherlands and among Protestant allies, before moving toward the later Swedish intervention and Frederick’s death—establishing the stakes and setting the stage for Sophia’s eventual prominence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession |
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| Uncontrolled term | Sophia, Electress, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, 1630-1714 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/electresssophiah00wardrich">https://archive.org/details/electresssophiah00wardrich</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77237">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77237</a> |
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